A publication of Barcelona Concensus
The Barcelona Consensus is presented in the World Social Forum in Dakar as a living process that seeks the development of intercultural alternatives to neoliberal globalization.
Making an inhabitable world for all
The Barcelona Consensus is presented in the World Social Forum in Dakar as a living process that seeks the development of intercultural alternatives to neoliberal globalization.
The Barcelona Consensus, organized by Nova – Centre per a Social Innovation, the Alliance for Freedom and Dignity and the Catalonia Institute of Human Rights, with the support of over 15 organizations, brings together 250 intellectuals, scholars and leaders of different social movements who have worked together during 2010, proposing new solutions to the challenges we face today: an intercultural alternative to the neoliberal globalization put forward by the Washington Consensus. These experts, half of which are men and half of which are women, have been selected by their propositional ability and in proportional numbers to the population of the different world regions, have worked together through online deliberations. The Barcelona Consensus will gather in Barcelona 28th to 30th April 2011, to approve the final Declaration and launch a world-wide action plan.
Launch of the consultation on the Barcelona Consensus declaration
Despite the organizational difficulties of the Dakar WSF, we have carried out the planned activities. On Feb. 8th we presented the draft version of the Barcelona Consensus Declaration, intitled “Commitment for an inhabitable world for all” with the participation of Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former UNESCO director general and President of Fundación Cultura de Paz (Catalonia – Spain), Fatma Alloo, journalist and founder of the Tanzania Media Women’s Association (Zanzibar-Tanzania), Ibrahima Coulibaly, founder of the Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysennes (Mali), Rama Mani founder of Justice Unlimited (France-India), Pedro Páez, former Minister of Economy (Ecuador), Lau Kin Chi, member of the Board of PeaceWomen Across the Globe and China Social Services and Development Centre (China), Ahmed Rahmani, director of the Institute on Modernity (Morocco-France), Wahu Kaara from the African Social Forum and the Kenya Debt Relief Network (Kenya) and Mankaman Souane, president of Action solidaire enfants et jeunes (Senegal). Hazel Henderson, president of Ethical Markets Media LLC (USA – Brazil), could not participate as planed through the Internet for technical difficulties and sent us a contribution.
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